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Parental Acceptance (parental + acceptance)

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Medical Sciences	66%

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Psychological Adjustment in Young Korean American Adolescents and Parental Warmth

JOURNAL OF CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRIC NURSING, Issue 4 2008
Eunjung Kim PhD
PROBLEM:,The relation between parental warmth and psychological adjustment is not known for young Korean American adolescents. METHODS:,One hundred and three Korean American adolescents' perceived parental warmth and psychological adjustment were assessed using, respectively, the Parental Acceptance,Rejection Questionnaire and the Child Personality Assessment Questionnaire. FINDINGS:,Low perceived maternal and paternal warmth were positively related to adolescents' overall poor psychological adjustment and almost all of its attributes. When maternal and paternal warmth were entered simultaneously into the regression equation, only low maternal warmth was related to adolescents' poor psychological adjustment. CONCLUSION:,Perceived parental warmth is important in predicting young adolescents' psychological adjustment as suggested in the parental acceptance,rejection theory. [source]

Discrepancies in Perceptions of Maternal Aggression: Implications for Children of Methadone-Maintained Mothers

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ORTHOPSYCHIATRY, Issue 3 2010
Jessica L. Borelli
Despite a long history of documenting discrepancies in parent and child reports of parental care and child psychopathology, it has only been in recent years that researchers have begun to consider these discrepancies as meaningful indicators of parent,child relationship quality and as predictors of long-term child adjustment. Discrepancies in perceptions of parenting may be particularly important for the children of mothers with a history of substance abuse who may be less aware of the impact of their behavior on their child and of their child's internalizing symptoms. This study examined associations between (a) mother,child discrepancies in reports of maternal aggression, and (b) mother and child reports of child internalizing and externalizing symptoms. Data collected from 99 mother,child dyads (with children 4,16 years of age) during the baseline phase of a randomized clinical trial testing a parenting intervention were used in this study. Measures included parent and child versions of the Parental Acceptance,Rejection Questionnaire and the Behavioral Assessment Scale for Children. Findings indicated that as children viewed their mothers as increasingly more aggressive than mothers viewed themselves, children reported more internalizing and externalizing symptoms but mothers only reported more child externalizing symptoms. Mother,child discrepancies in reports of parenting behavior have potentially meaningful implications for child emotional and behavioral problems. [source]

Interparental Conflict and Parenting Behaviors: A Meta-Analytic Review

FAMILY RELATIONS, Issue 1 2000
Ambika Krishnakumar
The purpose of this study is to examine the association between interparental conflict and parenting using meta-analytic review techniques. One-hundred and thirty-eight effect sizes from 39 studies are analyzed. The overall average weighted effect size is ,.62, indicating a moderate association and support for the spillover hypothesis. The parenting behaviors most impacted by interparental conflict are harsh discipline and parental acceptance. Several moderating effects for subject and method characteristics are significant. [source]

Psychological Adjustment in Young Korean American Adolescents and Parental Warmth

Testing Central Postulates of Parental Acceptance-Rejection Theory (PARTheory): A Meta-Analysis of Cross-Cultural Studies

JOURNAL OF FAMILY THEORY & REVIEW, Issue 1 2010
Ronald P. Rohner
This meta-analysis addresses the following questions drawing from parental acceptance-rejection theory (PARTheory): (a) Is perceived rejection by an intimate partner in adulthood associated with the same form of psychological maladjustment that perceived parental rejection is known to be in childhood? (b) Are adults' remembrances of parental acceptance in childhood associated with their current psychological adjustment? (c) Do statistical relations vary by culture or gender? The meta-analysis was based on 17 studies involving 3,568 adults in 10 nations. Results showed that perceived partner acceptance in adulthood and remembered paternal and maternal acceptance in childhood tend to correlate highly with the current psychological adjustment of both men and women across all studies. [source]

Disclosure and Secrecy in Adolescent,Parent Relationships

CHILD DEVELOPMENT, Issue 1 2006
Judith G. Smetana
Beliefs about parents' legitimate authority and adolescents' obligations to disclose to parents and actual disclosure and secrecy in different domains were examined in 276 ethnically diverse, lower middle-class 9th and 12th graders (Ms=14.62 and 17.40 years) and their parents (n=249). Adolescents were seen as more obligated to disclose prudential issues and less obligated to disclose personal than moral, conventional, and multifaceted issues; parents viewed adolescents as more obligated to disclose to parents than adolescents perceived themselves to be. Adolescents disclosed more to mothers than to fathers, particularly regarding personal issues, but mothers overestimated girls' disclosure. Greater trust, perceived obligations to disclose, and, for personal issues, more parental acceptance and psychological control predicted more disclosure and less secrecy. [source]